Unintentional Grounding

So I sent the kids off to do some discovering the other day... It all started when Gavin got a really cool feather from Grandma Edie; naturally Afton wanted one too, so I sent them off to find another one. They looked in all the usual places and about 10 minutes into their adventure they came back with a treasure they were thoroughly delighted over, to my dismay, they had 'spied with their little eyes' a robins nest up in the eves of our neighbors deck. Being the big thinkers that they are they thought for sure they'd find a feather inside a birds nest, I mean why not right...it's only logical. So they beat the nest down with a handy broken drain pipe and in the process broke 4 beautiful, tiny, delicate robin eggs. They gathered them piece by piece, put them back in the nest yoke and all, and innocently came to show me their discovey. Needless to say I was a bit disheartened by their finding and used it as a perfect teaching moment. We immediately went inside, googled robin eggs/incubation/Robin facts and learned a little about the Robin bird, we talked about how we should leave nature alone and even colored a picture of a robin. It turned out to be a great way to spend the rainy afternoon. Well, they never did find another feather but that was soon forgotten.

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Thanx Cheryse! Now were just like every other shmo, that can't help but let the whole world in on all thier little nasty secrets. Actually i think we will keep this blog our own little secret for the time being, can you imagine the pandamonium that will occur when news gets out we've succombed to the peer pressure. We may not ever be able to count all the hits! I guess we'll have to role with the punches as they come. Or perhaps my over inflated ego has another outcome in store? Whatever happens no turning back!